Star Gazing

He remembered when him and his mother used to sit out and gaze at the stars talking late into the night. A few times even him and his father would do the same, his father claiming that he felt each star was the souls of one who had left this earth. He missed his clan, missed his family, and now that Star disappeared he felt it all painfully rushing back. He did love his life and his job in Lirim, but something was missing. He quietly sighed before looking off in the distance to the large moon, just staring while his thoughts buzzed around in his head. It felt nice to be out tonight and he was glad he was doing this.

He was lost in his thoughts that he hadn’t heard the women’s approach. Normally for him it was highly unlikely to sneak up on him, but he was vary much distracted with his own mind. Her words made his ears swivel in her direction to catch what she was saying. Head lowered from looking at the sky before it turned to look at her sitting about ten feet from himself. He nodded to her in a quiet greeting pondering over what answer to give her.

”Just looking at the stars. How about you?” he replied.